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		<title>Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working through a series of questions about purpose. The first one is: &#8220;Why do we feel an organization should aspire to make the world a better place?&#8221;
Making the world a better place seems to be more important now than ever before among all generations.
To me, the glam and glitter of bright lights and fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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Have you ever thought about the questions leaders need to ask in order to instill purpose within their companies? 
This has really been top-of-mind for me lately, because so much is riding on the decisions leaders are making today.
It seems as if the margin of error has completely evaporated in the last six months.
I believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you going to make happen in 2009?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profits are meaningless without a cash reserve. From 23 years of personal experience and two very difficult periods of my life I want you to realize cash is king. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you make money in the next 90 days if you don&#8217;t have enough cash reserves to pay the bills from ongoing operations.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Freedoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 6, 1941 President Roosevelt forever changed to direction of the nation.
He single handedly added freedoms beyond the American Constitution. It was never implied Americans should expect freedom from &#8220;want and fear.&#8221; 
While these are wonderful ideals, as &#8220;rights&#8221; they are ridiculous.
It is written, &#8220;&#8216;I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History does repeat.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[491 years and 18 days ago, the 95 Thesis was nailed to the door in Wittenberg. In its day, this was the means of inviting scholars to debate important issues. Not a single person took the challenge.
A decree condemning the views was issued. The decree was later burned. The rest is history.
Eight or so years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Retailers Win Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily life keeps me humble.
Killing lions and bears like my namesake has never out of the question.

Of course with killing you create a lot of mess. Mess always has to be cleaned up. (Notice the current financial condition of GM and Chrysler.)
When we think about the victory of the fighting and killing of bears and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Imagine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entire generation of Americans is growing up with no newspapers and very few catalogs. They might not even know what a phone book looks like.
Scary stuff for an old retail fart like me!
This group is more concerned about value than privacy. They&#8217;ve never believed they had privacy, anyway. How to pay for something is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Shame.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
&#8220;It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson
  


 After listening to President Bush and then a dozen channels of political pundits and Wall Street hacks I went searching for some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generational Training</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/generations/generational-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greed-is-good Yuppies and Bible-believing conservatives each handle training the same way. 
This morning I was thinking about personality type as it relates to training. Of course, wondering always leads me to generational questions.
Remember we are living and working in an unprecedented four generational time. Never in earth&#8217;s history have four generations worked together &#8211; before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s not your fault.</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/general/it%e2%80%99s-not-your-fault-always/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/general/it%e2%80%99s-not-your-fault-always/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes leaders just have to pay the price.
The price of people&#8217;s failures: People just &#8220;leave the ranch,&#8221; they break laws, they backslide and backstab, they believe it&#8217;s your job to solve their problems, the list could go on. Leaders have to understand why they are leaders and others are not. 
The price of complaining: As [...]]]></description>
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